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Microsoft AZ-304 Certification: Azure Architect Design

Be able to advise customers and translate business requirements into Azure solutions by taking the AZ-304 exam!
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (2,317 ratings)
18,173 students
Created by Nick Colyer, Skylines Academy
Last updated 10/2020
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What you'll learn

  • Learn how to design and architect Azure solutions

Requirements

  • Azure Solution Architects who advise stakeholders and translates business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
  • This role requires managing how decisions in each area affects an overall solution. Candidates must be proficient in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps, and have expert-level skills in at least one of those domains.
  • Candidates should have advanced experience and knowledge across various aspects of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance.

Description

Welcome to the Skylines Academy AZ-304 certification course!

The AZ-304 course is intended for IT engineers and architects who have previous experience of Microsoft Azure. Since Azure services were released, there have been several additions and updates to the platform that will be explored in this course. In order for you to achieve success and pass the AZ-304 exam, this Skylines Academy course will guide you through a series of sections, lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, alongside other helpful study material. We have got you covered!

During this course, you will gain knowledge and hands-on experience of:

  • Design Logging and Monitoring solutions such as Log Analytics, Network Watcher and Security Center

  • Implement Cost Optimization for your environment

  • Design Compute such as Virtual Machines for Windows and Linux

  • Design and Manage Storage Accounts

  • Deploy Automation and Configure Resources

  • Implement Azure AD and PIM

  • Design and Manage Hybrid Identities

  • Configure Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Design and Manage Governance Solutions

  • Design Load Balancing and Network Security

  • Design for High Availability

  • Architect Security for Applications

  • Design an Application Infrastructure

  • Design Container-based Applications

  • Design Data Platforms like Azure SQL and CosmosDB

  • Design a solution for Backup and Recovery with Azure Backup and ASR

  • Design Migrations using Azure Migrate


    Lectures will educate you on the fundamental terms and principles of the Azure platform and demos will enable you with a hands-on experience using scenarios to empower you in the real world.



Note: If you took the AZ-303 course, there will be some overlap. There is a lot to repeat around subjects covered in AZ-303 to make sure you have the basis on core technologies that align with the curriculum. Where possible, I try to make the distinction but you will find that we need to cover core infrastructure topics again before moving onto design elements. Feel free to ignore these videos if you took my AZ-303 course, or watch them again for a good refresh before taking your AZ-304 exam. I continue to update this course based on design examples so you can try to take your hands on knowledge and think about it from an architecture perspective.

Who this course is for:

  • Azure Architects
  • IT Administrators

Featured review

Hao Tran
63 courses
12 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 511 months ago
Awesome training. I enjoyed it very much (along with AZ -101, AZ-103, and AZ-300 from Nick). I passed the exams on the first attempts - big thanks to the demos. My recommendation is to watch the videos closely as Nick packs lots of information in the lessons. Thank you, Nick for another awesome course!

Course content

31 sections • 217 lectures • 21h 35m total length

  • Preview03:37
  • Connect with us and your fellow students
    00:16
  • PowerShell Reference Guide
    01:01

  • Preview09:00
  • Demo: Monitoring and Alerts
    13:12
  • Lecture: Logging Design
    07:36
  • Lecture: Log Analytics
    05:35
  • Demo: Log Analytics
    23:18
  • Lecture: Network Watcher
    12:36
  • Lecture: Security Center
    18:58
  • Lecture: Alerting
    06:56
  • Artifact: Alert Examples
    00:03
  • Lecture: Monitoring Scenarios
    16:46

  • Preview08:29
  • Demo: Cost Management
    12:08
  • Artifact: Cost Calculator
    00:03

  • Lecture: Domain Services
    03:12
  • Lecture: Azure AD Overview
    06:17
  • Lecture: Azure AD Connect
    04:49
  • Demo: Create Azure AD Tenant
    03:06
  • Demo: Manage Users and Groups
    03:09
  • Review: Authentication Options
    10:09
  • Lecture: SSO and MFA
    03:12
  • Lecture: Self Service and Password Reset
    04:01
  • Lecture: Identity Protection
    03:17
  • Demo: Identity Protection
    07:03

  • Accounts and Subscriptions Overview
    06:30
  • Demo: Accounts and Subscription Management
    11:51
  • Lecture: Resource Groups
    02:18
  • Demo: Resource Groups and Tagging
    05:53
  • Lecture: RBAC
    05:24
  • Demo: RBAC
    03:36
  • Lecture: PIM
    07:59
  • Demo : PIM Setup
    08:25
  • Demo: PIM RBAC
    06:22
  • Demo: PIM Role Activation
    05:45

  • Lecture: Azure Locks
    01:17
  • Demo: Azure Locks
    06:32
  • Lecture: Azure Policy
    01:12
  • Demo: Azure Policy and Management Groups
    11:54

  • Lecture: Key Vault
    02:34
  • Demo: Key Vault
    05:31
  • Link: Key Vault Integration
    00:06

  • Lecture: Types of Data
    02:18
  • Lecture: Azure SQL
    04:22
  • Lecture: SQL Pricing Models
    08:08
  • Demo: SQL
    09:09
  • Lecture: SQL Auditing
    05:01
  • Lecture: Caching
    06:32
  • Demo: SQL Long Term Backups
    01:54
  • Lecture: Cosmos DB
    02:57
  • Lecture: Cosmos Consistency Levels
    03:30
  • Lecture: Big Data
    03:49
  • Lecture: Azure Data Factory
    02:13

  • Lecture: Storage Overview
    03:47
  • Lecture: Storage Account Overview
    04:57
  • Demo: Storage Account Portal
    18:19
  • Lecture: Manage Permissions
    05:25
  • Lecture: SAS Demo
    04:24
  • Lecture: Storage Keys
    00:59

  • Lecture: Service Level Agreements
    06:58
  • Lecture: Business Continuity
    08:32
  • Lecture: Azure Site Recovery
    05:00
  • Demo: Prepare Azure for Site Recovery
    05:32
  • Demo: Prepare VMware for Site Recovery
    22:08
  • Lecture: Azure Backup Overview
    05:09

Instructors

Nick Colyer
Microsoft Certified Trainer

Nick Colyer has over 25 years of experience in the IT Industry and currently works as a Chief Cloud Architect for AHEAD, LLC in Chicago, IL.

Day-to-day Nick spends his time educating and enabling customers to adopt cloud platforms in a way that is not only meaningful to their business, but also empowers them for years to come in the IT industry.

Nick is a passionate teacher of technology and is certified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Thousands of students have already trusted Nick with their IT training, and his courses routinely receive the highest reviews globally.

Nick often speaks at conferences including AHEAD Azure Innovation Days, VMWorld (2013/2016), the Looking Ahead Tech Summit (2014-2017), as well as tailored briefings for large enterprise companies across the United States.

You can regularly find Nick at community events and on Twitter (@vnickc).

Skylines Academy
Educate.Enable.Empower

Technology is increasingly becoming a way of life, a way of work, a way in which we move forward faster. With our combined experience in Azure, working with customers in IT on the day-to-day, enabling them to use the powerful platform to deliver services faster, we realized there's a gap: Education! Our courses were created on the basis that we could help people to become empowered by learning Azure themselves, rather than having someone else tell them what to do.

Skylines Academy gives people the depth of knowledge they need to get Microsoft Azure certifications which have a high-demand for professional careers in the job market. Our goal is to always bring you the most up to date material needed to not only pass the exam, but gain the real world experience necessary to excel in your IT career, putting you in the driver's seat.

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